TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dunn,Elizabeth Cullen
TI  - No Path Home: Humanitarian Camps and the Grief of Displacement 
SN  - 9781501712517
AV  - HV640.4.G28 .D866 2017
U1  - 362.8783094758 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Humanitarian assistance
KW  - Georgia (Republic)
KW  - Internally displaced persons
KW  - Refugee camps
KW  - South Ossetia War, 2008
KW  - Refugees
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Humanities & Human Rights
KW  - Political Science & Political History
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - humanitarian system, displacement, international humanitarianism, Georgian government, survival, politics of living, existential anthropology
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Note on Place Names in the South Caucasus --; 1. The Camp and the Camp --; 2. War --; Intertext 1: The Normal Situation --; 3. Chaos --; 4. Nothing --; Intertext 2: Void --; 5. Pressure --; 6. The Devil and the Authoritarian State --; Intertext 3: The State and the state --; 7. Death --; Intertext 4: Bright Objects --; 8. All That Remains --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - For more than 60 million displaced people around the world, humanitarian aid has become a chronic condition. No Path Home describes its symptoms in detail. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn shows how war creates a deeply damaged world in which the structures that allow people to occupy social roles, constitute economic value, preserve bodily integrity, and engage in meaningful daily practice have been blown apart. After the Georgian war with Russia in 2008, Dunn spent sixteen months immersed in the everyday lives of the 28,000 people placed in thirty-six resettlement camps by official and nongovernmental organizations acting in concert with the Georgian government. She reached the conclusion that the humanitarian condition poses a survival problem that is not only biological but also existential. In No Path Home, she paints a moving picture of the ways in which humanitarianism leaves displaced people in limbo, neither in a state of emergency nor able to act as normal citizens in the country where they reside
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501712517
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501712517
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501712517/original
ER  -